The
main purpose of this paper is to explore conceptions of the mind and
universe in context with a new paradigm shift in human consciousness. The
foundation for this term paper will be based on easy to understand connections
made between quantum theory, non-locality, Bell’s theorem, and
holograms. The goal is to open new
avenues of understanding concerning the interconnectedness of all things
in the broadest possible sense. Utilizing new scientific work
concerning non-locality and holodynamics, we may be able to break down
the apparent separateness that seemingly pervades human experiential
observations. Key concepts will include the idea that each part
of everything essentially contains the whole, and that everything is
pervaded by underlying levels of interconnectedness.

"Bell's theorem proves that any model
of reality, whether ordinary or contextual, must be connected by
influences which do not respect the optical speed limit. If Bell's
theorem is valid, we live in a superluminal reality. Bell's
discovery of the necessary non-locality of deep reality is the
most important achievement in reality research since the invention
of quantum theory."

Nick Herbert in Quantum Reality

We experience material reality in the form of
separate objects. However, modern physics is developing a conceptual
understanding of the physical universe as an interconnected whole. New
scientific insights concerning the nature of reality in relation to
quantum theory are beginning to produce a new understanding in which
nothing is separable from anything else. We are beginning to
find that although this perceived separation between material objects
is experientially real, it is not ultimately real.

Quantum Crystalizations of the Non-local Universal Mind

Let us begin with the classical misconception
by addressing the fundamental assumptions of Newtonian physics. In
a very general sense, it was thought that science could be used to
lift the veil of man’s ignorance to reveal the ultimate reality
that existed out there. It was assumed that physical objects
existed separate from each other. They were also seen as existing
separate from space. The classical conception of the relationship
between physical reality and space is analogous to the relationship
of billiard balls to a pool table. The behavior of physical reality
was described as the interactions of the billiard balls. The
table itself was seen as completely separate from what occurred on
it. In this way, classical physics viewed space as nothing more
than an arena where the interactions of physical objects took place.

With the advent of Einstein’s theory of
relativity, new relationships were taken into account. Specifically,
it was observed that physical reality was inseparable from the spatial
structure. In relativistic physics, material reality was still
described as separately existent objects interacting like billiard
balls. However, the connection was made between the structure
of the billiard balls and the structure of the pool table on which
the game was played. Ultimately, time and space, which were previously
considered independent of each other, were now seen to be relative
or related to each other through the underlying spatial structure of
space-time.

It wasn’t long after Einstein’s insight
into the interconnectedness of space and time that a new science began
to emerge which we call quantum physics. This strange new science,
which physicists encountered as they peered deeper and deeper in the
structure of the atom, revealed a reality that was everything but consistent
with common sense. By this I mean that the predictions the theory
makes about the nature of reality do not correspond to our usual sensory
perception of physical reality. However, quantum theory is the
most accurate method physicists have for predicting the behavior of
physical reality.

One startling feature of the quantum model is
that electrons, as well as other subatomic particles, are not really
objects at all. In addition, an electron can manifest as either
a wave or a particle. An electron can be fired at a screen to
reveal a tiny point of light, thus clearly revealing the particle-like
side of its nature. However, the electron can also behave as
a blurry cloud of energy. If fired at a barrier, in which two
slits have been cut, the electron can go through both slits simultaneously. 1

A popular interpretation of the evidence suggests
that the electron manifests as a particle only when it is being observed. For
example, when an electron isn’t being looked at, experimental
findings suggest that it is always a wave. In another slightly
different interpretation, it is the method of observation that determines
which aspect of the electrons nature will manifest. Conceptually,
we could say that what we experience as physical reality does not exist
in a defined or definite state prior to the act of observation. Similarly,
it is the act of observation itself which somehow defines the state
of physical reality. This line of thought represents a radical
break from classical physics in that there is no longer any reality out
there which we are struggling to uncover. For indeed, any
interaction we make somehow effects that which we are trying to observe.

Quantum theory also predicts another
fascinating phenomena which is known as non-locality. It
is quite obvious to our sensory perception of physical reality that
things have specific locations. However, David Bohm, a protégé of
Einstein and one of the world’s most respected quantum physicists,
held the view that at the quantum level, location ceased to exist. In
other words, all points in space became equal to all other points
in space, and it was meaningless to speak of anything as being separate
from anything else. A non-local interaction links up one location
with another without crossing space, without decay, and without delay. Simply
put, a non-local interaction is unmediated, unmitigated, and immediate. 2

Bohm’s conception of non-locality enabled
him to give an explanation for what is known as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen
paradox, or EPR paradox. In short, the paradox describes the
problem of how two twin particles can seemingly communicate instantaneously
which each other. The problem is that, according to Einstein’s
theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light,
let alone instantaneously. Bohm’s interpretation of the
EPR paradox is that the twin particles are not separate, but non-locally
connected. 3

In 1964, a theoretical physicist named John Stewart
Bell devised a simple and elegant mathematical proof which demonstrated
how non-locality could be experimentally verified. This proof
is known as Bell’s theorem. The only problem was that the
testing of his theorem required a level of technological precision
that was not yet available. 4 It wasn’t until 1982
that physicists Alain Aspect, Jean Dalibard and Gerard Roger of the
Institute of Optics at the University of Paris succeeded in verifying
the twin particle test that had been outlined by Bell.

In what is now known as the Aspect experiments,
the non-local effect was demonstrated by producing a series of twin
particles, allowing them to travel in opposite directions, and then
measuring certain characteristics of the particles. Quantum particles,
when observed, display what is known as a spin state. In general,
this characteristic comes in complementary pairs, such as an up or
down spin state. In order to understand the type of experiments
performed by Aspect and his team, let’s consider the following
simple variation. Imagine two particles which together have a
zero net spin state. That is they each have opposite spin
states relative the other, thus cancelling when they are combined. However,
according to quantum theory, the precise state of each particle’s
spin charactistic is undefined until it is observed. Since the
two particles must have opposite spin states, determining the spin
state of one of the particles through observation determines the spin
state of the other particle. 5

In quantum theory, the spin states do not just
exist to be revealed by observation. The spin states are in some
way the product of observation. So, the observation and determination
of one spin state then gives the other particle a spin state. Prior
to the initial observation, each particle has only a potential spin
state, which when determined, has to be the opposite of the other. In
the experiments led by Aspect, the particles fly away from eachother
at the speed of light and are allowed to travel a relatively great
distance. Then, a primary measurement is made to determine
the spin of one of the particles. After this measurement has
been made, the spin state of the second particle is measured and is
always observed to be in the opposite spin state relative to the first. For
a more rigorous explaination of the actual way this experiment would
be conducted, please refer to the text of Quantum
Dynamics of Morphing Psy ~ Trance ~ Formations.

The amazing thing is that the observation of one
particle instantaneously determines the spin state of the other particle
regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn’t
matter if they’re ten feet apart or ten billion miles apart. The
question could be stated, how is information transferred between two
apparently separate particles faster than the speed of light? A
number of theories have arisen which attempt
to account for hidden variables that somehow facilitate the unseen
cause and effect relationship whereby one particle affects the other. However,
these theories avoid the most obvious conclusion, which is that the
apparent separateness of the particles is itself an illusion. The
separateness is not ultimately real. Non-locality is simply a
manifestation of the ultimate unity underlying what we experience as
separate physical objects.

Holographic Mental Interference

As we shall see, these ideas are very consistent
with concepts which describe the universe in terms of holographic principles. Before
we proceed further into our exploration of unity, it is necessary to
understand some of the basic ideas of holograms. A hologram is
produced when a single laser beam is split into two separate beams. The
first beam is bounced off the object whose image is to be recorded. The
second beam is reflected off a mirror and allowed to collide with the
reflected light of the first. When this happens, the two parts
of the beam create an interference pattern that is recorded on a piece
of film called a holographic plate. 6

It is this phenomena of
interference which makes holography possible. Interference is simply
a pattern that is created when waves move through each other. Consider
what happens when if you drop two pebbles in a pond. Each pebble
will produce a set of waves that form concentric circles whichradiate outward from the point of impact. As
the waves from each pebble expand, they will at some point collide, and
the pattern that results is known as the interference pattern.

The pattern that is recorded on the holographic
plate looks absolutely nothing like the object which was used to make
the recording. Basically, it looks like a bunch of chaotic swirl’s
and concentric rings. However, once another laser beam is used
to illuminate the film, a three-dimensional image of the original object
reappears. You can walk around the image and view it from different
angles, but if you attempt to grab it, you’ll find that there
is really nothing there.

The most striking property of holograms is that
the whole image is contained in each part of the film. If you
take the original film, on which the interference pattern is recorded,
and cut it in half, you will find that the entire image can be projected
by illuminating only half of the whole. In fact, you can cut
the holographic plate into as many pieces as you want and you’ll
find that each piece, when illuminated, produces smaller versions of
the whole image. 7

At this point, we can easily begin to draw some
very interesting connections between the concepts we’ve addressed. In
the holographic model, we say that the information of the whole is
contained in each part. This is the same thing as saying that
the information is distributed non-locally. We have also found that,
at the quantum level, all particles are also waves. Thus, all
of physical reality is essentially nothing but interference patterns.

It might be a good idea for us to contemplate
the meaning of this last statement for a moment. Imagine an endless
web of energy patterns. Science has discovered that, at the quantum
level, these waves of energy are connected non-locally. This
means that every portion of the pattern is infinitely interconnected
with every other portion. It is essential to remember that we
are not objective observers to this field of crisscrossing frequency
patterns. We are it.

David Bohm suggests the possibility that this
underlying unity of existence produces the physical world in the same
way as a holographic plate produces a hologram. Could it be that
our experiential perception of separateness is nothing more than a
holographic illusion? Bohm describes the deeper level of reality
as the “implicate”, or enfolded, order. He refers
to the level of reality of our everyday experience, as the “explicate”,
or unfolded, order. 8 This is not to say that our physical existence
is unreal. However, it is helpful to understand it simply as
a secondary reality.

Let us consider what we are really observing when
we perceive a physical object. Consider the paper you are reading
and words on the page. What you see out there is not what
exists directly where it seems to be. You are
perceiving a holographic blur of frequency patterns that are
translated into a pattern of neural stimulation, which in turn is experienced
as the object out there. In fact, the process of determining
that the object exists out there occurs only in your mind’s
interpretation of the neural stimulation. When you look up at
the stars, you are seeing light that left the stars millions and perhaps
billions of years ago. Again, we are not seeing what is there
directly; we are seeing a pattern of neural stimulation created by
our interpretation of the light. “The same holds true for
all the physical senses.

What you see, hear,
taste, touch, and smell are all ultimately patterns of neuronal stimulation
that in some way correlates with what is out there, but still
are not really that.” 9 The frequencies
that are translated into neural stimulation are, in and of themselves,
colorless, textureless, and tasteless. The qualities we experience
through sensory perception are created by the mind and represent an “explicate” order
or secondary reality.

Our material reality is but a filtered version
of the ultimate unity which connects everything. This filtered
version creates separateness because it only perceives bits and pieces
of the whole at a time. If we could remove the filter, we would
experience reality directly as an interference pattern where all information
is distributed non-locally. Again, let’s not forget that
we are this pattern. Your hands, this paper, the trees outside
the window, our solar system, the entire universe; it’s all a
seamless, unbroken extension of everything else. It is one thing. If
this is true, then there can be no objective reality because the observer,
the process of observing, and the observed become one thing.

Morphogenesis & Dynamic Relativity

Let
us contemplate and consider how the uncut fundamental wholeness of
all reality became the differentiated reality of our experience. Firstly,
we’ll begin by introducing the concept of absolute existence. Absolute
existence is the uncut whole from which the pieces of reality emerge. Conceptually,
absolute existence is undefined and unbordered existence. As
we will see, absolute existence is equivalent to existent nothingness. Nothing
does not mean non-existence. It simply means that what
does exist is not definable as this or that, and therefore,
no-thing. Absolute existence has no structure, and thus, contains
no boundaries that could be used to define here in relation
to there. “Physical reality is the reality of objects,
the reality of things.

We hear things, we see things, we feel
things, we tast things, we smell things. Throughout
life we have assumed that all those things exist as defined things
independent of our experience of them as those things.” 10However, as noted in our discussion
of quantum theory, science has found that this may not be the case. The
defined thing-ness of those things we experience cannot exist except
in relation to our experience of them.

In fact, any thing that can be experienced only
exists in relation to something else. We may experience up and
think that up is independently up; however, up can only be up in relation
to down. Likewise, we experience hot and think that hot is independently
hot, not aware that hot can only be hot in relation to cold. “The
same is true for everything that we experience, in that whatever we
experience something to be, it can only be that in relation to some
other aspect of existence that is not-that.” 11 This form of existence can be termed relational
existence: existence that is what it is in relationship to some other
aspect of existence.

While absolute existence is structureless, relational
existence has structure. In order to get from the uncut boundless
non-structure of absolute existence to the structure of relational existence,
the system must undergo some transformation or process. In order
for the one thing to become two things, the one thing must polarize itself. It
is this process of dualization whereby absolute existence forms a relationship
with itself. Thus, some relational existence is defined in terms
of some other relational existence. “Once relative realities
exist, there exists a level of structure within existence. The existence
of this relational structure allows existence to form other relationships
with itself.” 12 In other
words, absolute existence does not dualize just once, but does so over
and over again, repeatedly and progressively. What this means is
that the relational realities produced by each level of dualization themselves
undergo the process of dualization, resulting in the creation of two new
relational realities within each preceding level of relational existence. This
process of repeated and progressive dualization creates an interconnected
structure of relational realities which we can call a relational matrix.

Regardless of how many times existence dualizes,
the underlying reality will always be that of unity and interconnectedness. Although
we experience reality as seemingly separate pieces, the fundamental
reality form which that perception arises is that of oneness, whereby
nothing is separable from anything else. Each part of the structure,
each reality cell, contains some of the existence of all the other
reality cells. Thus, each part of the structure is a reflection
of the whole.

Since any localized area of existence has the
quality of a-where-ness, then a non-localized area of existence, which
would be everywhere, would not have a-where-ness, but would have the
quality of every-where-ness or no-where-ness. This unbordered
every-where-ness is consciousness. Consciousness exists everywhere, and thus no-where. Absolute existence, as
we’ve defined it, can be considered as existent nothingness,
because it exists without the borders which define a thing. It
is no-thing and no-where, because it is everywhere. Absolute
existence is consciousness.

Any attempt to transcend the duality of existence
inherent to our experience can seem hopeless until one realizes that
they are an inseparable part of whatever it is that exists. Therefore,
we have access to whatever it is that exists directly because of the
inescapable fact that we are that. 13At the
deeper “implicate” level of reality, you are infinitely
connected to everything else that is. You are connected to every
other person, organism, and atom in the universe; thus, you are all
these things. Similarly, your thoughts are infinitely connected
to all thoughts. Being that the image of the whole is contained
within each part, the whole universe is within
you. The information of the whole is distributed non-locally,
and therefore you have access to all of it. Your mind is the
Universal Mind.

All relative realities are created by consciousness
existing in relation to itself. “We are that consciousness. We
are that consciousness existing in relation to itself and interacting
with itself.” There is nothing else. None of the
things we perceive as separate have an independent existence, as all
are in actuality relational extensions of the underlying unity of consciousness. “Physical
reality is a product of consciousness. Consciousness is not a
product of physical reality. Physical reality does not interact with
itself in some unknown fashion to cause consciousness to come into
existence. Consciousness in the process of repeated and progressive
self-relation becomes the awareness of experience, and thus creates
physical reality.” 14

We have seen that we cannot directly experience
the true texture of quantum reality because everything we look at crystallizes
into matter. For the same reason, we can never experience consciousness
as consciousness. When the unbordered, structureless-ness of
consciousness attempts to look at itself, it creates a relational structure
or frame of reference, experienced as a relative state of awareness. Consciousness
can only experience itself through its creation. This a wonderful
thing because here we are, armed with the understanding that nothing
is truly separable from anything else, and experiencing ourselves as
all that is. Separateness is an illusion. Fundamentally,
your true self is not other than the indestructible, unbordered, structruless-ness
of consciousness. To put it another way, you are God. The
Universe is your body. The understanding of this truth gives
rise to the experience of unconditional LOVE for all frequencies because
they all exist within you.